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National Center for Accessible Media Desgin Guidelines
These guidelines represent an ambitious initiative to capture access challenges and solutions and present them in
a format specifically designed to educate and assist educational software developers. The detailed guidelines, and
solutions specific to math and science are unique to this document. This work is the result of a three-year project
funded by the National Science Foundation's Program for Persons with Disabilities. The CPB/WGBH National Center for
Accessible Media developed this document with input from a distinguished board of advisors with expertise in accessible
design, assistive technology, and the education of students with disabilities. Readers will find:
* a basic understanding of the needs of users with different disabilities.
* a summary of various approaches to serve users with different disabilities.
* specific solutions for designing more accessible software.
* guidelines with specific checkpoints and detailed techniques for implementation.
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) commitment to lead the Web to its full potential includes promoting a high degree
of usability for people with disabilities.
WAI, in coordination with organizations around the world, pursues accessibility of the Web through five primary areas of
work: technology, guidelines, tools, education and outreach, and research and development.
Trace Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Trace Center is currently working on ways to make standard information technologies and telecommunications systems more
accessible and usable by people with disabilities. This work is primarily funded by the National Institute on Disability and
Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR)
National Center on Accessible Information Technology in Education
The National Center on Accessible Information Technology in Education (AccessIT) at the University of Washington serves to increase
the access of individuals with disabilities to information technology in educational institutions at all academic levels nationwide.
It is funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) of the U.S. Department of Education and is
located at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Touch Graphics
Touch Graphics conceives, designs and implements new computerized devices
for the blindness and visual impairment community.
Tactile Image Enhancer
Repro - Tronics is the designer and manufacturer of the Tactile Image Enhancer, Flexi - Paper tactile imaging paper, and Thermo Pen II.
These products are designed to assist blind and visually impaired individuals in the creation and understanding of tactile graphic
images. Explore this site and gain an understanding of how each of these unique products can assist in deciphering and designing
tactile images.
Center for Applied Special Technology
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a new approach to teaching and learning and the development of curriculum and assessment that draws
on current brain research and new media technologies to respond to individual learner differences. UDL curricula, teaching practices,
and policies are inherently flexible and therefore may reduce the demand on educators to develop and implement modifications and
accommodations to meet individual differences within general education learning environments.
Science Access Project
Contents
1. Braille overview and SAP research on improved code,
2. DotsPlus, an extension of standard braille,
3. Access to Object-Oriented Graphics
4. WinTriangle, the self-voicing Windows RTF Scientific Word Processor
5. MathPlus ToolBox, universally usable computer tools for basic mathematics
6. mathML to Linear Format Conversion Applications
Tactile Graphics Designer
This is a good site for tactile graphics software, tactual graphics design tools, tactile audio graphics such as TGD AudioPIX,
AudioCAD (blind user drawing system FREE with AudioPIX), Braille and TGD graphics with Duxbury, TGD programs by Tactile Graphics
Designer, include QikTac, TraceMe, AudioPIX and for release in January 2004 AudioBraille (tecah yourself Braille at ANY level). This
is followed by AudioTrip, a real time guidance system that does not use GPS - later in 2004